My Favorite 40 Seconds on Florence + the Machine's Dance Fever...

...is the first 40 seconds of "My Love".

It starts off a bit unassuming: some generic choir in the background while the music itself is there but also a bit indistinct. Florence's voice comes for only a moment before fading back out. Her voice then unassumingly comes back in and sustains one note while the background voices and music kinda just keep going but not toward any real goal or resolution. After a few seconds, everything but Florence's voice fades away and you realize:

"...she's been holding that note... for a while. How is she- She's still going!" And then the percussion and keys kicks in, and it's just... ugh.

If I'm not paying attention when this song comes on, I'm immediately arrested by it 30 seconds in. And if I am paying attention when it starts, I'll put everything on hold to pay close attention.

I can't think of a single song I dislike on Dance Fever. When "King" was put out as a single, I may have listened to it on repeat 40 times in a row before moving on to something else. But those first 40 seconds of "My Love"...

I think I could listen to it forever.